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3 Perfect Movie Masterpieces Streaming on Netflix This Weekend (Aug 8-9)
Last weekend, Tom Holland‘s return as Peter Parker in Spider-Man: Brand New Day broke the record for the highest-grossing opening weekend in cinema history. In total, the film made just shy of $1 billion in just a few days, the sort of total that most blockbusters can only dream of achieving. Alongside Christopher Nolan‘s historical epic The Odyssey, which also starred Holland, Zendaya, and Jon Bernthal, the two recorded the biggest weekend haul in cinema history. With last weekend proving popular in theaters, why not let yourself indulge in some movie treats from the comfort of your own couch this weekend? With that in mind, here’s a list of three movies you should stream on Netflix.
Disclaimer: These titles are available on US Netflix.
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‘Five Nights at Freddy’s 2’ (2025)
Rotten Tomatoes: 17% | IMDb: 5.1/10
With every new month comes a wave of fresh options hitting the Netflix library. At the start of August, horror fans were delivered a treat in the form of Five Nights at Freddy’s 2, a sequel to Blumhouse’s 2023 effort Five Nights at Freddy’s. Once again based on the lore-filled viral horror games by Scott Cawthon, this sequel follows Abby (Piper Rubio), a year on from the events at Freddy Fazbear’s, as she uncovers dark secrets behind Freddy’s origins.
Josh Hutcherson returns as Mike in this fan-favorite sequel, which fought back from critical backlash to score a huge haul at the box office. Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 is a simple, fright-a-minute horror flick with plenty to keep you hooked, which features a strong supporting cast including Matthew Lillard, Skeet Ulrich, Mckenna Grace, Elizabeth Lail, and Wayne Knight.
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‘Minions’ (2015)
Rotten Tomatoes: 55% | IMDb: 6.4/10
If you’re looking to entertain the whole family this weekend, then perhaps steering away from the horror genre and into the ever-vibrant world of animated agents of chaos with the Minions is your best bet. In 2015’s Minions, a prequel to 2010’s Despicable Me, nonsense-talking mischief-makers Stuart, Kevin, and Bob are recruited by supervillain Scarlet Overkill, who, of course, has a plan to take over the world.
Minions & Monsters, the seventh entry in the Despicable Me franchise, is still in theaters right now, having earned almost $450 million. With that in mind, there’s never been a better time to head back to one of the best entries in the franchise so far, with this laugh-a-minute reminder of just how great a cinematic creation the Minions are. Minions is just 91 minutes long, making for easy, quick viewing this weekend.
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‘In the Land of Saints and Sinners’ (2024)
Rotten Tomatoes: 83% | IMDb: 6.4/10
Who doesn’t love a neo-Western actioner to add a shot of adrenaline to their weekend? One of the most underrated of this genre in the last few years is In the Land of Saints and Sinners, which was recently added to the Netflix catalog on August 6. The movie stars Hollywood legend Liam Neeson as a retired hitman who is coaxed out of retirement when a dangerous criminal arrives in his quaint village.
Directed by Robert Lorenz and based on a screenplay by Mark Michael McNally and Terry Loane, don’t let this Irish action thriller fool you into thinking it’s a simple all-guns-blazing affair — there’s just as much detailed drama in this clever feature as there is gritty action. Neeson is great in this pulse-racing, intelligent film, which also stars Star Wars: Skeleton Crew‘s Kerry Condon, Ciarán Hinds, and Desmond Eastwood.
- Release Date
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March 29, 2024
- Runtime
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106 minutes
- Director
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Robert Lorenz
- Writers
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Terry Loane, Mark Michael McNally
- Producers
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Bonnie Timmermann, Geraldine Hughes, Philip Lee, Terry Loane, Markus Barmettler, Hubert Toint
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